Andrew Brownsword

The title of this post may sound like your local gastro pub, it is in fact a reference to probably the most unlikely business partnership you’ll have heard of in recent times. Whilst the hospitality establishment wait with baited breath over Andrew Davis’s next move after the £250-300 million collapse […]

There are many questions I get asked about Michelin rated & higher end food; but one that crops up on a regular basis is people enquiring about Gidleigh Park. My reply is always the same. Gidleigh Park is one of the very few places where you can go and be […]

At the time of writing this The Times had just pipped me to the post on naming that the owners of Chewton Glen had purchased not one, but both the jewels in the crown of the crumbling Von Essen empire. Catey Hotelier of the year Andrew Stembridge will, as Managing […]